According to Marcus Grunfeld of the publication, Perez said he and his agent will decide on Friday when to have the surgery to repair a partially torn ligament.

Perez also had the option of trying to return after a rehabilitation period of 10 to 12 weeks.

“Having an operation is the most convenient thing,” Perez said, according to Lavinotinto.

Perez, who signed a four-year, $12.5 million extension over the winter, figures to be sidelined through the early part of the 2015 season. Matt Harrison has a displacement of a verterba in his back and is no sure thing to even pitch again, so the Rangers continue to face big challenges in their starting rotation. On the positive side of things, Nick Tepesch pitched well yesterday against the Astros and Derek Holland is getting closer to returning from knee surgery.

Actually, while it may not be a news source officially, they do market it as such (the link at the top of this page even says “GET ALL YOUR HARDBALL TALK NEWS IN THE NBSC SPORTS TALK IPAD APP” which is an NBC fed link). If I advertise my ’83 Yugo as a sports car, it won’t make it a sports car, but it does afford you the right to criticize my misrepresentation of it. In as much, SPYTDI’s criticism has merit.

paperlions - May 16, 2014 at 7:08 AM

Except that they don’t break news. It is a blog, they link to news and stories and provide additional comments or opinions about the stories. By definition, somewhere else with report pretty much everything before it is reported here.

The goal on a blog is to provide commentary, not to be first.

dan1111 - May 16, 2014 at 6:06 AM

@youknow, you can get all of your baseball news from this blog. That is not false advertising. However, it is delivered in a blog format. Personally, I don’t mind that this post occurred less than 2 hours after the linked news article, and I suspect that hardly anyone else does either. Anyone who does mind is free to consume news in a different format.

Jeez….this is getting so bad that as I sit hear watching Betances pitch, I keep expecting his arm to come off at the elbow and fly farther than he throws the ball…kind of like when the bat shatters and the ball dribbles 50 ft and the bat head flies into the OF.